Moccas / Moches / Mochros
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B01:
symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 beasts
Scene Description: a/p description in Bond
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & George Zarnecki, 1992
Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/mocca/index.htm] [accessed 13 September 2008]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & George Zarnecki, 1992
Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/mocca/index.htm] [accessed 13 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 05474MOC
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km W of Hereford, just S of the A438 (access via a single-lane path)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval
A report of the Cambrian Archaeological Association's Kington Meeting of 28 August 1863 that appeared in Archaeologia Cambrensis (vol. IX, 1863, 375) describes the font as "early Norman, coeval with the church [i.e., "early part of the twelfth century"] and is original in all its parts--base, shaft and basin". An extract of Littlebury's Directory of 1876-1877 [transcription by Rosemary Lockie 2004 in [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Moccas/Littlebury1876.html] [accessed 13 September 2008]] reports that the church "has been restored at a cost of about £2,000, and consists of nave, chancel, circular apse, porch, small bell-tower (containing two bells), font, and several monuments and tablets", but does not give the date of the said restoration. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font: round bowl with round chamfered base on modern stem, 12th or early 13th century. Cover of oak, with top divided into triangular panels, acorn-shaped knob in middle, 17th-century." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/mocca/index.htm] [accessed 13 September 2008], without suggested date.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37.5 cm*
Height of Base: 16.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/mocca/index.htm] [accessed 13 September 2008] [NB: obviously the addition of the two heights given for the font do not make up the total original height of the font -- the original height of the base is not accounted for here]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-09-13 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934
